“ No country in which population flourishes and is in progressive improvement can be under a very mischievous government. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | improvement government |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
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“a despotism rather in appearance than in
reality.
AMONG the standards upon which the effects of government on any country are
to be estimated, I must consider the state of its population as not the
least certain. No country in which population flourishes and is in
progressive improvement can be under a very mischievous government. About
sixty years ago, the Intendants of the generalities of France made, with
other matters, a report of the population of their several districts. I
have not the books, which are very voluminous, by me, nor do I know where”
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